I recently posted on needing a GPS system for the internet.  This is the first of many thoughts around navigating the internet, and more importantly being able to store information a little more logical from the internet.

Here is my idea for how I would like to navigate a web site.  This is a simple representation of the B2BRelevance.com site home page header.

When you click on any link, the focus is on the page you have selected like this:

A couple of points:

• Navigation is not linear or hierarchical, it is relational.  Therefore when I am on a page, I would like to see the relationships between data and pieces of information.  I would like to know where I came from, and where I can go on the site
• The path that I have traveled thus far on the site could be highlighted.  I could “see” the path highlighted and even go back on the path that I have traveled so far.  Most importantly, I want the ability to save the whole or part of the path I have traveled to my own repository and draw my own relationships between information from this path and other information that I already have.
• I would like to see the author of the information on the page, and see who referred me to that information – was it Google, Twitter, another Blog?  Who are they?  And Why did they send me here?  Maybe it’s relevant, maybe it’s not.  In addition, I want to be able to relate ideas, and content to people.  People to organizations, people to people, organizations to organizations and all of this to content.  I want it at my fingertips, and I want to be able to navigate it fast.

Wishful thinking?

Related posts:

1. I need a GPS when I am browsing the internet